Alan Baratz

President and CEO, D-Wave

Dr. Alan Baratz became CEO of D-Wave in 2020. Previously, he was D-Wave’s EVP of R&D and Chief Product Officer, guiding all product development. As the first president of JavaSoft at Sun Microsystems, he oversaw the rapid growth of the Java platform, leading to its adoption by nearly 80 percent of Fortune 1000 companies. He has also held positions at Symphony, Avaya, Cisco, and IBM, served as CEO and president of Versata, Zaplet, and NeoPath Networks, and was a managing director at Warburg Pincus LLC. He holds a doctorate in computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.